What are the most sadistic things you've done?

shooting mosquitos with an airsoft pistol.

When I was a young girl I would pull the jumping legs off of a grasshopper and give the helpless bug to my cat to play with and eat. I also caught bugs and fed them to spiders.

Now I try not to have a negative impact on anything. I said try. I eat hunted and fished things.

I can’t think of anything. I’m sure some things I have done have hurt others or animals, but it would never be my intent to torture anything. I have captured lightening bugs and out them in a jar, maybe they were freaked out being confined? I certainly have killed some insects in my day, but never purposely killed them slowly or pulled their legs off, WTH? Although, I do admit to watching my cat play with a cricket now and then, the cricket was probably afraid before it died.

When a mouse got in our house my husband said, “a mouse just got in, I don’t want to hurt it.” Then he took a broom and chased it around, fast little thing, to sweep him out the door.

I frequently tie up space aliens and rape them until they are a whimpering glob of quivering prey. Then I use my bullwhip to make enough pain to bring the fight back to them, so they will squirm better when I rape them some more. When I finally turn them loose, I make sure it is their mother in law who comes to pick up what’s left.

Two things… The first thing I have lamented and regretted since doing it.
When I was, oh, about, 13, my friend came over to my house and we went down to my pound. Long story short cause I hate reliving it we captured a bunch of salamanders, put them in a small bucket and opened fire on them with a bb gun. It took me all of a second after we were done to feel like shit. I have hated myself for doing that, since that day.

The second thing I still do, because I hate these creatures so much, is drowned deer ticks in wax. They are a plague-level problem here during the summer, so whenever I leave the house and head into the woods, I end up with 2 to 5 of them on me. I pull the blighters off, light a candle, get the wax real runny, then drop them in after extinguishing the flame. I think of it as a different way of preserving their bodies for study, rather then the suggested rubbing alcohol. Here, it is suggested that if you ever find a tick, you drop it in a sealed jar with rubbing alcohol and send its body to a doctor to be tested for lime decease, hence the “plague level” problem I mentioned

@jtvoar16 You could just wear long sleeves and long pants in the woods. That’s what I usually did.

That makes no difference to ticks. They jump down from above, and navigate until they find a hairy head. Baldness is the only deterrent.

@JLeslie I’ve tried that, though, to be fair, I usually hike nude, so that doesn’t help.
@Jonesn4burgers I’m bald, and those little freaks still manage to land on me, and navigate towards any place they can find heat, like my neck, or armpits. I’ve tried shaving my body, or at least the areas they like to infest… I seriously think they are a lot smarter then they appear to be… Like little alien invaders that are taking a very long time to kill the Earth’s population.

It’s creepy how instinctual they are. One year I conducted a little experiment. I captured a few of them in a glass tube, and capped it. Then, I left it in the hot sun for about 30 minutes. They scattered across the glass in a very rigid formation, with a few at the top, then a few at the bottom, and the remaining ones spread out in-between (there were about ten in the tube, if I recall). Then, when I picked up the tube and held it, they all moved towards my fingertips. It was both fascinating and terrifying. If it has body heat, you can bet those bastards will find a way of falling on it, and eating it…

I have not ever done anything sadistic to a person or animal.
I love nature and animals and the only sadistic thing I would ever do is beat the crap out of anyone I saw doing something sadistic to an innocent creature.

@Jonesn4burgers I have never found a tick on my head, but I am sure it happens. You can certainly wear a hat. Lots of ticks where I used to live supposedly. I once had a painter get three ticks the 5 days he worked on my property. He was like a magnet. I had one the years I lived there, my husband two.

I hate watching anything suffer. I don’t understand the draw.

@JLeslie I suspect certain people just attract them. My old friend would always come back from our hikes with at least one tick. I usually never had any when I was out with him. But when I was alone, I would end up with one on me. He really was a magnet for them. I was always pleased when he wanted to come on a hike with me!

I like to spray hairspray on spiders and watch them die :D

Does filling a lightbulb with water, placing a goldfish in there & screwing it to the light fitting count?
Fried fish for supper!! Or maybe just a light snack?

Watching my brothers do sadistic things ti insects was as close as I ever got.
{I don’t think killing or even toying with mosquitoes is sadistic at all}.

Mosquitos, ticks and maggots are exempt from being squished, everything else, no. Spiders are our friends, I adore jumping spiders and always try to rescue insects, even wasps, if possible.
I have also saved countless mice, voles, moles and gophers over the years. I love little rodents as long as there are not swarms of mice in my house.
Life is life, regardless of the form it takes and we should not kill for kicks, period.

Probably burning ants with a magnifying glass.

When I was a kid I used to like catching crickets. You take two and then put them against one another and they start fighting. They use their mandibles mostly and eat each other’s faces off.

@Symbeline Sometimes you scare me.:) Mine was probably hunting and fishing. It’s a so called sport, but the other participant doesn’t know they’re playing.

I don’t get willingly hurting any being. I cringe when I see people torturing insects for fun. What’s funny about it?

@longgone For me there wasn’t anything funny about it. It was fascination. But what can I say, I was like 7 years old, I can’t really go back to that mind frame and try to explain it.
I loved insects as a kid and always went out after them and put them in jars. But the capturing of insects, unlike the making crickets fight wasn’t a mean intention on my part, and I got sad when my bugs always died in the jars.
But yes, the cricket fights, it was intentional. Which is why I don’t understand the crickets not making me sad, but bugs that I didn’t mean for them to die did.

@Symbeline You were seven. I completely understand children just acting out of curiosity! :)

When I was 11, one of my neighborhood friends showed up with a bb gun. Within a week I had one as did 2 more of our friends. It really is chilling how quickly we became proficient with those Daisy pump bb guns. Our neighborhood was heavily treed, and we spent much of the summer roaming the alleys shooting birds, and we got VERY good at it. The birds died in droves. One fascinating aspect of our murder rampage is that we became experts on identifying birds. Not only that. We could distinguish between their calls. We knew what we were hunting before we could see it. It became routine to pick a bird out of the foliage of those old treetops, even 60 -80 feet up and dispatch it with a shot to the head. Sometimes they dropped like bricks to the ground, sometimes they spiraled or tumbled, and if they were hit in the neck, little puffs of down would float slowly down behind them. My bird slaughtering days came to an abrupt end, but that’s another story.

@filmfann Snap. I used to spend hours doing that with my grandfather’s magnifying glass.

I played postal 1 and I set all the citizens on fire… I can still here the screams. In real life I tormented ant’s. I wanted to know what their/there favorite food was so I tried hot sauce and then diced fruit… and plain sugar.. they didn’t like any of them. One time I caught a spider and accidentally ripped two of its legs off so I put it inside a root beer container and put a little water to drink… It made a web inside the bottle and I let it outside and I walked out and went into the grass… I have now idea what happened to it after.

@Coloma Don’t kill me! I just <beep> hate mosquitoes so much :(

But really, my brother even does more sadistic things with mosquitoes: he turns on an electric racket and throw the moquito onto it. When the mosquito jumps out (because of the explosion), he picks it up and throw in again on the racket. The whole cycle continues until the mosquito becomes a tiny, tiny piece of ash!

@Mimishu1995 Nah…no hate, just encouraging people to be aware that all life forms serve a purpose, even parasites. Hey…in the archives I have a Q. about how to kill a maggot infestation in my trash can. Maggots are little garbage disposals, like vultures and other carrion eaters, but…when your trash can is teeming, time to bring out the big guns. haha

@Mimishu1995 what is an electric racket?

When I was about eight we had a cat that loved sleeping on my chest. I would try to toss the cat up and see if I could get it to hit the ceiling. It was a big cat and actually seemed to kinda like it but my toothpick arms couldn’t get the cat to hit the ceiling. My sister found me doing it and beat the shit out of me.

@anniereborn, if she is speaking of what I think she is, Harbor Freight sells them as electric flyswatters. They are sort of a battery operated bug zapper which resembles a tennis raquet.

@anniereborn I thought Americans had one? Oh well, I almost forgot that the American weather is too cold for mosquitoes

I think @Jonesn4burgers kind of described what I’m referring to quite. I would like to add some more detail and correct her a bit:

Actually, an electric racket looks like a normal racket but with a twist: it has far more strings than a normal racket and all the strings are made of metal, and it is heavier than the normal racket. It also has a button on the handle and a plug for charging. The electric inside it is dangerously strong, to the point that it may do harm to a human. To use it, hold the button on the handle and swing around. When a mosquito touch the racket, it will get a reeeeeally nice zap and you’ll hear some zapping noise as well as light. It can be use to kill other insects as well as mosquitoes.

Well, such a killing machine isn’t it? The electric racket is very popular here that people have invented a slant word for killing mosquitoes using the racket, literally translated: “to smash msoquitoes”.

@Mimishu1995 I assure you it is not too cold where I live to have mosquitoes. But I am not an outdoorsy person at all. Certainly not during the time the bugs come out. So I hadn’t heard of one. I’m surprised the mosquito lasts through one zap.

@anniereborn No, most can’t survive one zap. But my brother repeatedly zaps them because he want to be sadistic! ~

And you don’t have to be outdoor to meet mosquitoes in the area I live. They just enter our house :/